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Job 8
[Bible]Job 8 contains the first speech of Bildad the Shuhite. Bildad asserts that God does not pervert justice and urges Job to seek God, assuring him that if he is pure and upright, he will be restored.
Job 18
[Bible]Job 18 contains the second speech of Bildad the Shuhite. Bildad rebukes Job's protests and describes at length how the light of the wicked is put out, how the wicked man is caught in a snare, and how he is left with neither descendants nor a name.
Job's Three Friends
[People]Job's three friends are Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, who appear in the Book of Job. They came to comfort Job in his suffering but went on to argue that his sins had caused it, and God rebuked them.
Job 25
[Bible]Job 25 contains the third and final speech of Job's friend Bildad. It exalts God's power and majesty and asserts that no human being can be righteous or pure before God. At six verses, it is the shortest speech in the dialogues of the Book of Job.
Job 26
[Bible]Job 26 records Job's reply to Bildad's third speech. After mocking Bildad's attempt at comfort, Job extols God's creative power over Sheol, the heavens, and the sea, and declares that what humans know of it is only a small part.
Job 19
[Bible]Job 19 is Job's reply to Bildad's second speech. Job laments that he has been abandoned by his friends and by God, yet he also confesses, "I know that my redeemer liveth," expressing his hope that he will ultimately see God.
Job 9
[Bible]Job 9 is the first part of Job's reply to Bildad's first speech. Job laments that no one can plead his own righteousness before God's overwhelming power, and he protests that there is no one to judge between them.
Job 10
[Bible]Job 10 is the chapter in which Job, while answering Bildad, turns to appeal directly to God. He asks why the God who formed him with His own hands now destroys him, and he pleads for even a brief respite before he dies.
Job 19:25
[Bible Verses]Job 19:25 is Job's confession in the midst of his suffering: "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." The church has long read this verse as pointing to Christ and the hope of the resurrection, while scholars differ over the identity of the redeemer and what Job expected.
Job 10:8–12
[Bible Verses]Part of Job's prayer of protest in which he asks God why he would now destroy the one he so carefully made. Because the passage depicts God shaping a person in the womb, it is often cited in discussions of creation, providence, and the life of the unborn.
Job 9:32–33
[Bible Verses]A passage in which Job laments that there is no "daysman," or arbiter, to decide between God and himself. Christian tradition often reads it as a longing for Christ the Mediator, and the passage also raises questions of translation and textual tradition.
Job 17
[Bible]Job 17 is the second half of Job's reply (chapters 16–17) to Eliphaz's second speech. Job laments that death is near, asks God himself to be his surety, and rebukes his friends for their lack of wisdom. At the end he asks where his hope can be in the face of the grave and Sheol.
Job 11
[Bible]Job 11 contains the first speech of Zophar the Naamathite, one of Job's three friends. Zophar rebukes Job for claiming to be righteous, appeals to the unsearchable wisdom of God, and urges Job to forsake his sin and return to God.
Job 27
[Bible]Job 27 is the chapter in which Job swears an oath by God and declares that he will never abandon his integrity, then describes the portion that the wicked will ultimately receive.
Eliphaz (the Temanite)
[People]Eliphaz the Temanite appears in the Book of Job as one of the three friends who came to comfort Job after disaster struck him, and he was always the first of them to speak. He interpreted Job's suffering as the result of sin and was rebuked by God.
Job 7
[Bible]Job 7 continues Job's reply to Eliphaz. Job laments the brevity of human life and the suffering that persists night after night, then appeals directly to God, asking, "Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee?"
Job 24
[Bible]Job 24 is the latter part of Job's reply to Eliphaz's third speech. Pointing to a world in which those who oppress the weak and those who sin under cover of darkness go unpunished, Job asks why God does not set times for judgment.